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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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